# sela
## English
### Noun

sela
* plural of selo

### Anagrams

* ASLE, Ales, ELAS, Elsa, LAEs, LEAs, SEAL, Sale, Salé, Seal, aels, ales, lase, leas, sale, seal

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsɛla]
* Rhymes: -ɛla
* Hyphenation: se‧la

### Participle

sela
* inflection of sít:
** feminine singular past active participle
** neuter plural past active participle

### Noun

sela
* inflection of selo:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

### Anagrams

* Elsa
* lesa

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sela, from Latin sella. Cognate with Portuguese sela and Spanish silla.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛla/ [ˈs̺ɛ.lɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɛla
* Hyphenation: se‧la

### Noun

sela f (plural selas)
* saddle
** 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 117:Nota que esta door, que chaman corno, desarreigase çedo se caualgaren en el con sella posta ante cada hũa das meezjnasNote that this ache, which they call horn, is soon removed if they ride [the horse] with the saddle on before each one of the medicines
* (archaic) throne; chair
    Synonyms: trono, cadeira

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “sela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sela”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sela”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Indonesian
### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /səˈla/ [səˈla]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: se‧la

#### Noun

sêla (plural sela-sela)
* interval, break (time in between two events)
* cleft, crack, crevice
    Synonym: celah
* interim, provisional
    Synonym: selang

##### Derived terms

* bersela
* disela
* menyela
* penyela
* penyelaan
* sela-menyela
* sela-sela

##### Compounds

* pemilihan sela
* putusan sela

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Portuguese sela, from Old Galician-Portuguese sela, from Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈsela/ [ˈse.la]
* Rhymes: -ela
* Syllabification: se‧la

#### Noun

sela (plural sela-sela)
* (archaic) saddle (a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal)
    Synonym: pelana

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Javanese ꦱꦺꦭ (séla, “stone, precious stone, benzoin resin”), from Old Javanese śilā (“stone”), from Sanskrit शिला (śilā, “stone, rock”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈsela/ [ˈse.la]
* Rhymes: -ela
* Syllabification: se‧la

#### Noun

sela (plural sela-sela)
* (chiefly obsolete) stone
    Synonym: batu

### Etymology 4

Perhaps from Borrowed from Minangkabau

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /səˈla/ [səˈla]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: se‧la

#### Adjective

sela
* (dialectal) squint
    Synonym: juling

### Etymology 5
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈsela/ [ˈse.la]
* Rhymes: -ela
* Syllabification: se‧la

#### Verb

sela
* Alternative form of sila (“to sit cross-legged”)

### Further reading

* “sela” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Javanese
### Romanization

sela
* romanization of ꦱꦼꦭ
* dated spelling of séla, romanization of ꦱꦺꦭ

## Malagasy
### Etymology

Borrowed from English cell.

### Noun

sela
* cell (unit of life)

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *saiwalō.

### Noun

sēla f
* soul
** Irlosin sol an frithe sela mina fan then thia ginacont mi, wanda under managon he was mit mi.He shall deliver in peace my soul from those who attack me, for amongst many he was with me.

#### Alternative forms

* siela

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: siele
** Dutch: ziel
*** Afrikaans: siel
** Limburgish: zeel

#### Further reading

* “siela”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old Norse
### Noun

sela
* inflection of seli m (“harness”)
** oblique singular indefinite of seli
*** accusative singular indefinite of seli
*** dative singular indefinite of seli
*** genitive singular indefinite of seli
** accusative plural indefinite of seli
** genitive plural indefinite of seli
* inflection of selr m (“seal”)
** accusative plural indefinite of selr
** genitive plural indefinite of selr

## Phuthi
### Verb

-séla
* to drink

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese sela, from Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛ.lɐ/
* Homophone: cela
* Hyphenation: se‧la

#### Noun

sela f (plural selas)
* saddle

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

sela
* inflection of selar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Southern Ndebele
### Verb

-séla
* to drink

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsela/ [ˈse.la]
* Rhymes: -ela
* Syllabification: se‧la

### Verb

sela
* inflection of ser:
** second-person singular imperative combined with la
** second-person singular voseo imperative combined with la

## Swedish
### Etymology

sele (“harness”) +‎ -a

### Verb

sela (present selar, preterite selade, supine selat, imperative sela)
* (sometimes with på) to harness (put a harness on (a horse or other draft animal))
    sela (på) en hästharness a horse
    en (på)selad hästa harnessed horse

#### Conjugation
### References

* sela in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* sela in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* sela in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English sailor.

### Noun

sela
* sailor

## Turkish
### Alternative forms

* sala

### Etymology

From Arabic صَلَاة (ṣalāh).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /seˈlɑː/

### Noun

sela (definite accusative selayı, plural selalar)
* A prayer recited by a muezzin before a funeral prayer or the call to prayer on an Eid or on Fridays.

#### Declension
### References

* “sela”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

## Xhosa
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Verb

-séla
* (transitive) to drink

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.